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Monday, 21 December 2015

Crawl - “Old Wood and Broken Dreams” (Album Review)

By: Chris Bull

Album Type:
Full Length

Date Released:
18/10/2015

Label: Stone Groove
Records

Music like this doesn't need to be complex or challenging to be
brilliant, its barbecue music for bloodshot eyed slackers, music to blare out
the speakers of your pickup truck on your way to buy more beer. The world needs
music like this, thank your chosen deity that Crawl are more than happy to
oblige.

Atlanta, Georgia's Crawl
bring us this glorious chunk of Southern swamp metal on 'Old Wood and Broken Dreams' and while it doesn't break new ground
(it's not fucking supposed to!), it's sure to drive people to break open a beer
and smile gleamingly and nod in approval.

Stone Groove Records have handled the CD release
here and have obviously been hard at work ensuring the packaging is
immaculately presented to give the listener the whole experience.

'Crack
Tea',
the first of 2 instrumental tracks here, belches out some quality groovy sludge
before 'Don't Kid Me' swaggers
through in all its whiskey swilling goodness. Vocalist/guitarist Eric Crowe
sounds like a man who smokes fifty filterless Marlboro’s a day in between
bottles of Jim Beam as he croaks over some solid riffs on 'Useless' and screams incessantly over the noisy sludge that is '3AM And A Loaded Gun' as well as
cranking out some sublime instrumental goodness as he does on 'Pilldust'. A personal highlight is 'Nigredo' where the rhythm section of
drummer Tommy Butler and bassist Tyler Akers keep it inhumanly tight while
Crowe riffs and bellows for the first half of the track before going all clean
and sounding a lot like Scott Kelly on his
earlier solo work.

Music like this doesn't need to be complex or
challenging to be brilliant, its barbecue music for bloodshot eyed slackers,
music to blare out the speakers of your pickup truck on your way to buy more
beer. The world needs music like this, thank your chosen deity that Crawl are more than happy to oblige.

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